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With the 45th anniversary of this 1970 book approaching in 2015, it would be good to review the book's still-intact relevance. It remains today on my top-ten list of essential reads. The following is the third installment of my condensation of favorite sections and passages. –SB
Toffler, Alvin. Future Shock. Random House, 1970.
THE STRATEGY OF SOCIAL FUTURISM: Can one live in a society that is out of control? That is the question posed for us by the concept of future shock. For that is the situation we find ourselves in. If it were technology alone that had broken loose, our problems would be serious enough. The deadly fact is, however, that many other social processes have also begun to run free, oscillating wildly, resisting our best efforts to guide them.
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How can we prevent mass future shock, selectively adjusting the tempos of change, raising or lowering levels of stimulation, when governments—including those with the best intentions—seem unable even to point change in the right direction?
. . . Raymond Fletcher, a frustrated Member of Parliament in Britain, recently complained: "Society's gone random!"
If random means a literal absence of pattern, he is, of course, overstating the case. But if random means that the outcomes of social policy have become erratic and hard to predict, he is right on target. Here, then, is the political meaning of future shock. For just as individual future shock results from an inability to keep pace with the rate of change, governments, too, suffer from a kind of collective future shock—a breakdown of their decisional processes.
With chilling clarity, Sir Geoffrey Vickers, the eminent British social scientist, has identified the issue: "The rate of change increases at an accelerating speed, without a corresponding acceleration in the rate at which further responses can be made; and this brings us nearer the threshold beyond which control is lost."
What we are witnessing is the beginning of the final breakup of industrialism and, with it, the collapse of technocratic planning. By technocratic planning, I do not mean only the centralized national planning that has, until recently, characterized the USSR, but also the less formal, more dispersed attempts at systematic change management that occur in all the high technology nations, regardless of their political persuasion. Michael Harrington, the socialist critic, arguing that we have rejected planning, has termed ours the "accidental century." Yet, as Galbraith demonstrates, even within the context of a capitalist economy, the great corporations go to enormous lengths to rationalize production and distribution, to plan their future as best they can. Governments, too, are deep into the planning business. The Keynesian manipulation of post-war economics may be inadequate, but it is not a matter of accident. In France, Le Plan has become a regular feature of national life. In Sweden, Italy, Germany and Japan, governments actively intervene in the economic sector to protect certain industries, to capitalize others, and to accelerate growth. In the United States and Britain, even local governments come equipped with what are at least called planning departments.
First, technocratic planning, itself a product of industrialism, reflects the values of that fast-vanishing era. In both its capitalist and communist variants, industrialism was a system focused on the maximization of material welfare. Thus, for the technocrat, in Detroit as well as Kiev, economic advance is the primary aim; technology the primary tool. The fact that in one case the advance redounds to private advantage and in the other, theoretically, to the public good does not alter the core assumptions common to both. Technocratic planning is econocentric.
Second, technocratic planning reflects the time-bias of industrialism. Struggling to free itself from the stifling past-orientation of previous societies, industrialism focused heavily on the present. This meant, in practice, that its planning dealt with futures near at hand. The idea of a five-year plan struck the world as insanely futuristic when it was first put forward by the Soviets in the 1920's. Even today, except in the most advanced organizations on both sides of the ideological curtain, one- or two-year forecasts are regarded as "long-range planning." A handful of corporations and government agencies, as we shall see, have begun to concern themselves with horizons then, twenty, even fifty years in the future. The majority, however, remain blindly biased toward next Monday. Technocratic planning is short-range.
Third, reflecting the bureaucratic organization of industrialism, technocratic planning was premised on hierarchy. The world was divided into manager and worker, planner and plannee, with decisions made by one for the other. This system, adequate while change unfolds at an industrial tempo, breaks down as the pace reaches super-industrial speeds. The increasingly unstable environment demands more and more non-programmed decisions down below; the need for instant feedback blurs the distinction between line and staff; and hierarchy totters. Planners are too remote, too ignorant of local conditions, too slow in responding to change. As suspicion spreads that top-down controls are unworkable, plannees begin clamoring for the right to participate in the decision-making. Planners, however, resist. For like the bureaucratic system it mirrors, technocratic planning is essentially undemocratic.
The forces sweeping us toward super-industrialism can no longer be channeled by these bankrupt industrial-era methods. For a time they may continue to work in backward, slowly moving industries or communities. But their misapplication in advanced industries, in universities, in cities—wherever change is swift—cannot but intensify the instability, leading to wilder and wilder swings and lurches. Moreover, as the evidences of failure pile up, dangerous political, cultural and psychological currents are set loose.
One response to the loss of control, for example, is a revulsion against intelligence. Science first gave man a sense of mastery over his environment, and hence over the future. By making the future seem malleable, instead of immutable, it shattered the opiate religions that preached passivity and mysticism. Today, mounting evidence that society is out of control breeds disillusionment with science. In consequence, we witness a garish revival of mysticism. Suddenly astrology is the rage. Zen, yoga, séances, and witchcraft become popular pastimes. Cults form around the search for Dionysian experience, for non-verbal and supposedly non-linear communication. We are told it is more important to "feel" than to "think," as though there were a contradiction between the two. Existentialist oracles join Catholic mystics, Jungian psychoanalysts, and Hindu gurus in exalting the mystical and emotional against the scientific and rational.
This reversion to pre-scientific attitudes is accompanied, not surprisingly, by a tremendous wave of nostalgia in the society. Antique furniture, posters from a bygone era, games based on remembrance of yesterday's trivia, the revival of Art Nouveau, the spread of Edwardian styles, the rediscovery of such faded pop-cult celebrities as Humphrey Bogart or W. C. Fields, all mirror a psychological lust for the simpler, less turbulent past. Powerful fad machines spring into action to capitalize on this hunger. The nostalgia business becomes a booming industry.
The failure of technocratic planning and the consequent sense of lost control also feeds the philosophy of "now-ness." Songs and advertisements hail the appearance of the "now generation," and learned psychiatrists, discoursing on the presumed dangers of repression, warn us not to defer our gratifications. Acting out and a search of immediate payoff are encouraged. "We're more oriented to the present," says a teen-age girl to a reporter after the mammoth Woodstock rock music festival. "It's like do what you want to do now. . . . If you stay anywhere very long you get into a planning thing. . . . So you just move on." Spontaneity, the personal equivalent of social planlessness, is elevated into a cardinal psychological virtue.
All this has its political analog in the emergence of a strange coalition of right wingers and New Leftists in support of what can only be termed a "hang loose" approach to the future. Thus we hear increasing calls for anti-planning or non-planning, sometimes euphemized as "organic growth." Among some radicals, this takes on an anarchist coloration. Not only is it regarded as unnecessary or unwise to make long-range plans for the future of the institution or society they wish to overturn, it is sometimes even regarded as poor taste to plan the next hour and a half of a meeting. Planlessness is glorified.
Arguing that planning imposes values on the future, the anti-planners overlook the fact that non-planning does so, too—often with far worse consequence. Angered by the narrow, econocentric character of technocratic planning, they condemn systems analysis, cost benefit accounting, and similar methods, ignoring the fact that, used differently, these very tools might be converted into powerful techniques for humanizing the future.
When critics charge that technocratic planning is anti-human, in the sense that it neglects social, cultural and psychological values in its headlong rush to maximize economic gain, they are usually right. When they charge that it is shortsighted and undemocratic, they are usually right. When they charge it is inept, they are usually right.
But when they plunge backward into irrationality, anti-scientific attitudes, a kind of sick nostalgia, and an exaltation of now-ness, they are not only wrong, but dangerous. Just as, in the main, their alternatives to industrialism call for a return to pre-industrial institutions, their alternative to technocracy is not post-, but pre-technocracy.
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We need not a reversion to the irrationalisms of the past, not a passive acceptance of change, not despair or nihilism. We need, instead, a strong new strategy. For reasons that well become clear, I term this strategy "social futurism." I am convinced that, armed with this strategy, we can arrive at a new level of competence in the management of change. We can invent a form of planning more humane, more far-sighted, and more democratic than any so far in use. In short, we can transcend technocracy.
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By now the accelerative thrust triggered by man has become the key to the entire evolutionary process on the planet. The rate and direction of the evolution of other species, their very survival, depends upon decisions made by man. Yet there is nothing inherent in the evolutionary process to guarantee man's own survival.
Throughout the past, as successive stages of social evolution unfolded, man's awareness followed rather than preceded the event. Because change was slow, he could adapt unconsciously, "organically." Today unconscious adaptation is no longer adequate faced with the power to alter the gene, to create new species, to populate the planets or depopulate the earth, man must now assume conscious control of evolution itself. Avoiding future shock as he rides the waves of change, he must master evolution, shaping tomorrow to human need. Instead of rising in revolt against it, he must, from this historic moment on, anticipate and design the future.
This, then, is the ultimate objective of social futurism, not merely the transcendence of technocracy and the substitution of more humane, more far-sighted, more democratic planning, but the subjection of the process of evolution itself to conscious human guidance. For this is the supreme instant, the turning point in history at which man either vanquishes the processes of change or vanishes, at which, from being the unconscious puppet of evolution he becomes either its victim or its master.
A challenge of such proportions demands of us a dramatically new, a more deeply rational response toward change. This book has had change as its protagonist—first as potential villain and then, it would seem, as potential hero. In calling for the moderation and regulation of change, it has called for additional revolutionary changes. This is less paradoxical than it appears. Change is essential to man, as essential now in our 800th lifetime as it was in our first. Change is life itself. But change rampant, change unguided and unrestrained, accelerated change overwhelming not only man's physical defenses but his decisional processes—such change is the enemy of life.
Our first and most pressing need, therefore, before we can begin to gently guide our evolutionary destiny, before we can build a humane future, is to halt the runaway acceleration that is subjecting multitudes to the threat of future shock while, at the very same moment, intensifying all the problems they must deal with—war, ecological incursions, racism, the obscene contrast between rich and poor, the revolt of the young, and the rise of a potentially deadly mass irrationalism.
There is no facile way to treat this wild growth, this cancer in history. There is no magic medicine, either, for curing the unprecedented disease it bears in its rushing wake: future shock. I have suggested palliatives for the change-pressed individual and more radically curative procedures for the society—new social services, a future-facing education system, new ways to regulate technology, and a strategy for capturing control of change. Other ways must also be found. Yet the basic thrust of this book is diagnosis. For diagnosis precedes cure, and we cannot begin to help ourselves until we become sensitively conscious of the problem.
These pages will have served their purpose if, in some measure, they help create the consciousness needed for man to undertake the control of change, the guidance of his evolution. For, by making imaginative use of change to channel change, we can not only spare ourselves the trauma of future shock, we can reach out and humanize distant tomorrows.

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Hey guys! I just wanted to post this podcast here that got me back into RotK! Just fyi, I did NOT create this!
http://www.3kingdomspodcast.com/subscri ... -episodes/
The guy has a bit of a thick Asian accent, but being Asian myself I guess I'm used to it! He essentially just retells the novel but what's really good is that for every episode he has a transcript, a map of where all the events happened, and a chart that ties all the people involved.
He seemed to have put a LOt of effort into this and wanted to share so his work doesn't go unnoticed!


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DOVER -- Uno Chicago Grill of Dover has partnered with the Dover/Rochester and Somersworth Fire Departments to kick off the Toys For Tots of the Seacoast Area.
This year more than ever people need our help. On Black Friday, Nov. 23, we will open 6 to 9 am for free coffee /snacks and cider to help regenerate our midnight shoppers. While you are here come pick up a $25 gift card and receive $10 extra on top of that and an unwrapped toy in your name for the toy bank.
Then return that afternoon at 2 pm for an amazing event. All three fire departments will have trucks for children to look at, the smoke house to practice stop/ drop and roll, gift wrapping of the gifts you purchased for a donation, free pictures with Santa and much more! We are trying to fill a truck up three times full of unwrapped toys. Plus we will be hosting a dough raiser starting on Thanksgiving evening when we open until Saturday morning at 12:30 am. Please come in and eat and they will raise 20% to go toward the toy drive.
This is sure to be an amazing event and if your business or school would like to be involved and win prizes while helping out this great cause please feel free to call Maureen Raiche at 603-767-7352.
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Stamford office vacancy levels continue to lead county
Stamford's levels continue to lead the nation
The southwestern Connecticut office market followed up a strong first quarter with a mixed bag of results during the second quarter, with the vacancy rate of the southern submarket of Stamford and Greenwich outpacing the rest of the region.
The overall vacancy rate dropped to 16.3 percent during the quarter, 0.2 percentage-points lower than the rate recorded in the prior year and quarter, according to RHYS Commercial, a Stamford commercial real estate firm.
Across the submarkets, southern Fairfield County had the highest vacancy rate across the county at 19.7 percent, slightly higher than the previous quarter but unchanged on a yearly basis.
Northern Fairfield County saw another strong quarter, with the vacancy level dropping by 0.6 percentage-points over the quarter and 1.9 percentage points over the year to finish the quarter with an vacancy rate of 16.4 percent.
The central submarket's vacancy rate increased quarter to quarter, but dropped year over year to 14 percent.
Long-term optimism
The eastern submarket saw the strongest improvement in a quarterly basis, dropping by 1.2 percentage points to finish at 12 percent.
The improved levels in some areas gave Eric Griffin, director of research and financial analysis at RHYS, reason for long-term optimism.
"Down the road, I think things are improving, and I think availability rates will be going down the rest of the year," Griffin said. "There are more potential tenants looking for space."
The availability rate typically represents space that will be available in a market within the next 12 months.
In the southern submarket of Stamford and Greenwich, available space was virtually unchanged quarter to quarter, and there was 4.2 percent less space available after last year's second quarter.
One of the biggest beneficiaries of companies moving within the region was 3001 Summer St., in Stamford, owned by The Ashforth Co. In 2012, the 290,000-square-foot building underwent extensive renovations, and in the first quarter it started to pay dividends for the company as it signed Pitney Bowes and O'Connor Davies as tenants.
In April, Genworth renewed its lease for the building, and in May, it added Willis of Connecticut, global insurance risk adviser, as a tenant, bringing the occupancy level to 72 percent.
Willis of Connecticut moved from the Merritt 7 complex in Norwalk.
`Glacial improvement'
While Ashforth has been successful in attracting tenants, the overall office rental market has been slow, said Jim Fagan, senior managing director of the Stamford office of Cushman & Wakefield.
"I think we're seeing glacial improvement. Leasing is getting better, but there's still space coming back on the marketplace," he said.
The Greenwich office of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank reported the Stamford market saw some positive activity in the quarter with Vineyard Vines leasing more than 90,000 square feet at Shippan Landing and Stamford Hospital leasing 46,292 square feet at 292 Long Ridge Road.
But on the supply side, Purdue Pharma added 91,601 square feet at 201 Tresser Boulevard after taking the space back from UBS.
"Almost every single sector -- medical and retail -- is hot, except office," Fagan said. "With office, there's demand but a lot of supply. Office vacancy rates are still stubbornly high, which remains good for tenants."
The cost of debt for building owners remains relatively low, allowing them to hold onto their property for the time being, Fagan said.
9 West Broad renovations
Darien-based Forstone Properties showed its confidence in the Stamford office market in 2013 when it purchased 9 West Broad St., for $14.5 million.
It is completing extensive renovations at the 200,000-square-foot building, which is 15 percent occupied, according to RHYS, which is representing the property.
The project should go a long way in filling the building, according to Forstone Principal Brandon Hall.
"Tenant activity has been strong, and we feel these improvements will increase market interest and leasing velocity during the second half this year that will continue into 2015," he said.
"We believe 9 West Broad St. provides great rental options for the tenant who wants Class A space in downtown Stamford but doesn't want to pay top of the market rent, as well as the tenant who is looking for affordable options to upgrade their office space."
Forstone has said rents are in the high $20 range.
Saying the building provides dramatic views of the reconstructed Mill River Park, Hall said Stamford offers one of the state's most dynamic commercial office markets.
"It offers tenants numerous reason to conduct business in the city, including strong transportation infrastructure, multiple housing options, and exciting restaurant, nightlife and entertainment venues," he said.


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If anyone is going to have a reasonable, practical solution to a problem, it's a politician, am I right? So it's no surprise that Gotham City Mayor Anthony Garcia (Nestor Carbonell) has passed a recent piece of legislation known as the Harvey Dent Act, presumably early on in the events of The Dark Knight Rises. It serves to close the loopholes that allow organized crime to subsist in the city while marking the masked vigilante known as Batman (Christian Bale) as a villainous force who nearly stamped out Gotham's hope. It also honors Dent's sacrifices and establishes a city-wide remembrance on Harvey Dent Day. Isn't that nice? Hit the jump to check it out.
Sure this piece of legislation isn't as flashy as the newest trailer we brought you, but it's a nice tie-in to the ending of The Dark Knight. Check out the act below (via CBM):
Here's the synopsis for The Dark Knight Rises, followed by links to our recent coverage:
Warner Bros. Pictures'and Legendary Pictures' "The Dark Knight Rises" is the epic conclusion to filmmaker Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, Leading an all-star international cast, Oscar(R) winner Christian Bale ("The Fighter") again plays the dual role of Bruce Wayne/Batman. The film also stars Anne Hathaway, as Selina Kyle; Tom Hardy, as Bane; Oscar(R) winner Marion Cotillard ("La Vie en Rose"), as Miranda Tate; and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, as John Blake. Returning to the main cast, Oscar(R) winner Michael Caine ("The Cider House Rules") plays Alfred; Gary Oldman is Commissioner Gordon; and Oscar(R) winner Morgan Freeman ("Million Dollar Baby") reprises the role of Lucius Fox. The screenplay is written by Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan, story by Christopher Nolan & David S. Goyer. The film is produced by Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan and Charles Roven, who previously teamed on "Batman Begins" and the record-breaking blockbuster "The Dark Knight." The executive producers are Benjamin Melniker, Michael E. Uslan, Kevin De La Noy and Thomas Tull, with Jordan Goldberg serving as co-producer. The film is based upon characters appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. Batman was created by Bob Kane.
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I am in a rage this morning. There is nothing more infuriating than waking up in a hotel room at 5am to sh-tty internet. Oh no, wait. I know what's more infuriating. What's more infuriating is calling the front desk and being told that, yeah, it's normal, our internet service goes up and down all the time in the same tone of voice you might say good morning to someone. Opening an email right now is taking almost 30 seconds. Googling is even longer. And I fear playing a YouTube video might bring down the entire block.
By the way, this place is in Beverly Hills. They walk around dripping diamonds and Botox in Beverly Hills but apparently they can't get their internet straight.
So my point is...
While this may set your day back, or even your week, considering what it was like the last time Tom Hardy nuzzled a puppy, I actually really needed this to level the situation. Tom Hardy and the puppy is like... Xanax. Is that the calming one? Or would that be Ativan? Or both? Would there be less housewife abuse of prescription drugs if they knew to hit up pictures of Tom Hardy and the puppy?
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The Archdiocese of Miami is becoming a recurring episode of The Jerry Springer Show. All that's missing is a little pew-tossing and a big security guard named Steve.
In the latest episode, Father David Dueppen has admitted to fathering a child with a stripper while he was blessing parishioners in a Miami church.
The news comes a couple of weeks after the stripper, Beatrice Hernandez, held a public confessional revealing that Father Dueppen was in love with a stripper for many years, but had got a little out of hand with his sexual demands.
Dueppen and Hernandez are now admittedly the parents of a 9-month-old daughter.
But Dueppen doesn't want to be a dead-beat father - in the parental sense, not the spiritual sense. He's already kind of failed that calling.
Dueppen wants to have majority custody of the baby and wants the child to have his last name. That's not happening, says Hernandez, who wants a restraining order against Dueppen to protect her and the couple's daughter.
The Archdiocese has not chimed in on the outed affair, but Dueppen might want to have Alberto Cutie and the Episcopalians on speed dial. He could be looking for a new job soon.
More on the custody battle on the next Jerry Springer.


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Germany's State Minister for Culture and Media Bernd Neumann has secured an additional €10m for the DFFF incentive programme's annual budget from next year, bringing the total available to domestic and international productions up to €70m.
The increase was granted by the Bundestag's Budget Committee on Thursday (Nov 8) as part of a €100m boost for expenditure on culture in 2013, and comes just a month after the European Commission greenlit the DFFF for another three years to the end of 2015.
Neumann's eighth consecutive boost to the arts budget was applauded by Alexander Thies, board chairman of the German Producers Alliance.
"The fact that €10m of this is flowing to the DFFF is something that we producers naturally especially welcome because the DFFF is much more than just a mere financing instrument for us. It has also contributed decisively through the stimulation of international co-productions to the situation where we don't have to shy away from a comparison with the world's top production hubs."
Uli Aselmann, chairman of the Alliance's cinema section, added: "The DFFF has developed since its creation [in 2007] into an essential support for film production in Germany. But its tasks must also be developed further. The incorporation of VFX services and postproduction into the new DFFF guidelines are first improvements, which will make us fit for the future in this areas. Thus, this increase coming particularly now is so important for Germany as a production hub."
Recent projects to have benefitted from the DFFF incentive include Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive, Philipp Stölzl's Der Medicus, Tony Pemberton's Buddha's Little Finger, Sherry Hormann's 3096, Nadav Schirman's Der grüne Prinz, Thomas Arslan's Gold, Til Schweiger's Kokowääh 2, and Denis Dercourt's Zum Geburtstag.


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"Many health care organizations are not adequately prepared to fend off a data breach, which exposes them to fines and penalties of up to $1.5 million per year under the Health Information and Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act," said Beth Strapp, vice president and health care product manager for Chubb Specialty Insurance. "ForeFront Portfolio's cyber liability insurance can provide customized coverage for crisis management and privacy notification expenses, data breach-related fines and penalties, and legal defense costs."
Increasingly, health care organizations also are being accused of filing fraudulent claims with Medicare and Medicaid, Strapp added. ForeFront Portfolio's D&O insurance may cover defense costs and certain fines and penalties as a result of an investigation, subpoena, search warrant or other types of inquiry into such an allegation, regardless of whether a civil lawsuit is filed.
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The most recent conflict, which started with the U.S.-led overthrow of the Taliban government in 2001, has killed thousands of soldiers and civilians, and cost tens of billions of dollars. According to United Nations figures, 2011 is the most violent year since the war began: all signs, Roche argues, that the Western military and diplomatic effort isn't working.
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Did NASCAR executives go too far this time in hitting Denny Hamlin Thursday with a $25,000 fine for his post-race comments Sunday evening after the Phoenix 500?
Hamlin's analysis of that race and how the new 2013 stock cars performed was rather mild-mannered, all things considered. And, to be blunt, Hamlin's comments were right on the mark -- the new cars still need tweaks to make them handle better, as anyone who watched Daytona and Phoenix could easily attest.
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Hamlin is not happy: "This is the most upset and angry I've been in a really, really long time about anything that relates to NASCAR.
"The truth is what the truth is, and I don't believe in this. I'm never going to believe in it. And so as far as I'm concerned, I'm not going to pay the fine. If they suspend me, they suspend me at this point."
Kyle Petty, the third generation NASCAR Petty, comes from a solid line of stock car racers willing to stand up for what they believe. Here Kyle (center), with Richard (center-left) and Maurice. (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
"Just because it's NASCAR's ball and their ballpark and they make the rules doesn't necessarily mean that there can be censorship. And there appears to be a lot of censorship in this fine," Petty went on.
"NASCAR wants drivers to have personalities and character and to express themselves... but only if they say positive and not negative things. I don't know anyone who can do that.
"I'm going to buy me a Denny Hamlin hat and tee-shirt, because drivers should stick up for themselves.
"It's hard to believe that this sport has come to this, where we fine drivers for comments.
"Whatever happened to fining drivers for big motors and illegal bodies and cheating on the track? Now it appears they don't have a right to have an opinion off the race track.
"I could not survive in this sport as a driver at this time. I'd be paying a fine every week. I'd be broke.
"But here's the way it works: It's NASCAR's ball, their ballpark, their rules, and if you want to play, you got to pay. You can stand up and blow smoke and hot air all you want, but somebody's going to have to pay that fine if it comes down to that.. or it's going to have to be appealed and overturned."
Kyle Petty is never one to shy away from a challenge...even one presented by the NASCAR Frances (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
I'm sure Mike Helton will give Denny the ole Days of Thunder speech for Big John on Friday, but I commend Denny for having the onions to stand up for himself and not cower down to the almighty NASCAR. He shouldn't pay the fine, and shouldn't be made to. I doubt NASCAR will back down now that Denny has said he won't pay the fine, but it's still a shame that they are censoring the drivers. The fans shouldn't stand for this either.
How about Denny Hamlin starting a war between NASCAR & it's fans! Lets get Brian France, Robin Pempton & Mike Helton OUT OF NASCAR!!! They're ruining The sport!!!! Put Darrell Waltrip in charge & let him run NASCAR
Pemberton looked and acted exactly like Susan Rice did about Benghazi !! He looked like a STOOGE who didn\'t quite believe in his own message, but was forced to FRONT for some unidentified GodFather. I smell a oversensitive King in some new clothes that need a few alterations !!
The networks could conceal the identity and disguise the voice of drivers who want to speak their mind. That way Senator McCarthy...er Brian France would have to do a lot more digging to find his victims. Doesn\'t NASCAR have something better to do than filter through driver post-race comments. They must have SECRET SENSORS near every microphone reporting directly to the secret NASCAR police.
it is NASCAR\'s ballpark & their rules. However, I think I will stay home next ballgame & take my $ to the local dirt track, where you can still be a personality & not a mindless robot. Now, mind you, i don\'t spend but about a couple grand a year on going t NASCAR races but this is a couple grand they will not get from me.
NASCAR, when there are no more fans, no more drivers and car/tseam sponsers, what wll your business model be?
All the drivers could refuse to race this week, until NASCAR agrees to let people say what they believe. Some made a analogy that a cook couldn't tell you that the food is bad, or you wouldn't go to that restaurant, and he should be fired. Well if the food is bad, then as a paying customer, I have a right to know before I give you my hard earned money.
If NASCAR wants drivers to say positive things, then they need to give them something to be positive about.
There has to be a way to make these car not so dependent on aero. I know they want it like IROC, so the sponsors with pay their money. But racing has always been, and will always be about the best driver, and the best racing team staying within the rules. Not about, "well it fits the template, but we don't like it so we're going to penalize you. Last year when Hendrick came up with something legal in the rear of the car, and no else could figure it out, instead of making the other teams work on it until they got, NO, NASCAR decided they needed to write more rules for that area. So much for being a better race team than everyone else.
Well, I\'m not a fan of Denny\'s but I agree that this fine is so stupid on NASCAR\'s part. If they want the fans to believe anything the drivers say, they can\'t fine them for telling the truth.
Before any words came from any of the driver\'s I had already formed my own opinion about the car and that was \"this needs work\".
I\'ve been waiting for NASCAR to prove that all the hype about how great this car was going to be was valid. Two races in - not so much - will Las Vegas be better? I doubt it.
Its apparent that NASCAR\'s management thinks they still live in the stone age when information flowed slowly through the world - with twitter, the web and other fast outlets, news travels like lightning and right now, NASCAR is not looking good.
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Great article Mike. And kudos to Kyle Petty for telling it like it is.
Now the vanilla drivers are going to be even more vanilla than before. What NASCAR did was censorship pure and simple. I have been saying this for years, NASCAR leadership starts at the top and look who's at the top. Brian "who me?" France. He is NOT management material. He's a weak leader and seems to be seriously out of touch with the fans and drivers. I think his Daddy and I know Big Bill, would have fired his sorry butt by now. NASCAR needs a new person in charge. I don't see anyone in the France family as being a capable leader. They need to look elsewhere and find somebody that can make the hard decisions and still relate to the fans.
Look at Roger Goodell and his leadership of the NFL. The guy relates with the fans. He tailgates with them and sits in the stands on occasion with them. When has a fan seen Brian at the track or sitting in the stands? Never.
I've been a fan for about 48 years now and I firmly believe that what is mainly wrong with NASCAR is it's leadership, or should I lack of. NASCAR needs a strong leader with knowledge of the sport, cars, drivers and fans. It all starts at the top and what we have at the top right now is pathetic.
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75. Re: Clarification on the use of the Transaction bridge in a inbound bridgingadinn Oct 14, 2010 6:09 AM (in response to mauromol)
Mauro Molinari wrote:
Hmm, I am not sure exactly what you tried nor whether it is what I was suggesting. What you need is for the coordinator side initialisation routine to install the ATParticipantRecoveryModule. This means you need to add it to the list of coordinator recovery modules. The normal settings add it to the list of participant recovery modules. So, if you are using the beans.xml you would set the config as follows:
<property name="coordinatorRecoveryModules"> <list elementClass="java.lang.String"> <value>org.jboss.jbossts.xts.recovery.participant.at.ATParticipantRecoveryModule</value> <value>org.jboss.jbossts.xts.recovery.coordinator.at.ATCoordinatorRecoveryModule</value> <value>org.jboss.jbossts.xts.recovery.coordinator.at.SubordinateATCoordinatorRecoveryModule</value> <value>org.jboss.jbossts.xts.recovery.coordinator.ba.BACoordinatorRecoveryModule</value> <value>org.jboss.jbossts.xts.recovery.coordinator.ba.SubordinateBACoordinatorRecoveryModule</value> </list> </property
If you are using a property file to define the settings you need to use this
<entry key="org.jboss.jbossts.xts.recovery.coordinatorRecoveryModule1">org.jboss.jbossts.xts.recovery.participant.at.ATParticipantRecoveryModule</entry> <entry key="org.jboss.jbossts.xts.recovery.coordinatorRecoveryModule2">org.jboss.jbossts.xts.recovery.coordinator.at.ATCoordinatorRecoveryModule</entry> <entry key="org.jboss.jbossts.xts.recovery.coordinatorRecoveryModule3">org.jboss.jbossts.xts.recovery.coordinator.at.SubordinateATCoordinatorRecoveryModule</entry> <entry key="org.jboss.jbossts.xts.recovery.coordinatorRecoveryModule4">org.jboss.jbossts.xts.recovery.coordinator.ba.BACoordinatorRecoveryModule</entry> <entry key="org.jboss.jbossts.xts.recovery.coordinatorRecoveryModule5">org.jboss.jbossts.xts.recovery.coordinator.ba.SubordinateBACoordinatorRecoveryModule</entry>
The coordinator side initialisation installs each entry in this list in order. So, the participant module needs to be the first one in the beans list (or have a key which sorts first if you are using properties.
Mauro Molinari wrote:
I think this is because the whole initialisation takes place in one thread, while the periodic recovery happens in another. So, the only requirement is that the initialisation has finished BEFORE the periodic recovery thread starts to use the recovery manager. However, my concern is that since this code is not synchronized, in some circumstances the periodic recovery thread may fail even if I move the definition of ATParticipantRecoveryModule before those of the Coordinator recovery modules.
I don't know if I've been sufficiently clear... Maybe I'm totally wrong.
The periodic recovery thread can only execute the recovery module code once the recovery modules have been installed in its module list. So, if it runs before initialisation has been done then it will not finx the modules. If it runs after initialistaion is done or even in the middle of initialisation) then the module install method will have been called before the recovery thread is able to access the module. Here is the code from class CoordinatorRecoveryInitialisation:
try { XTSRecoveryModule module = (XTSRecoveryModule)clazz.newInstance(); module.install(); RecoveryManager.manager().addModule(module); recoveryModules.add(module); } catch (InstantiationException ie) { RecoveryLogger.i18NLogger.error_recovery_coordinator_CoordinatorRecoveryInitialisation_3(className, ie); } catch (IllegalAccessException iae) { RecoveryLogger.i18NLogger.error_recovery_coordinator_CoordinatorRecoveryInitialisation_4(className, iae); }
So, as long as you place the AT participant recovery module first in the coordinator's recovery list the AT recovery manager will get created before any of the AT recovery modules can be executed by the periodic recovery thread.
76. Re: Clarification on the use of the Transaction bridge in a inbound bridgingadinn Oct 14, 2010 6:16 AM (in response to mauromol)
Mauro Molinari wrote:
Anyway, I think I'm at a good point now: the error I get when I try to launch a servlet which acts as a client to a webservice (and uses transaction demarcation through XTS) is the following:
AVVERTENZA: Interceptor for {http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-tx/wscoor/2006/06}ActivationService#{http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-tx/wscoor/2006/06}CreateCoordinationContextOperation has thrown exception, unwinding now org.apache.cxf.interceptor.Fault: Could not send Message.
... Caused by: java.io.IOException: IOException invoking http://ws-mauro.ost.lan:8080/ws-c11/ActivationService: HTTP response '404: Not Found' at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) ...
Caused by: java.io.IOException: HTTP response '404: Not Found' ...
which means I need to configure the WSDL endpoint URL of the ActivationService. Unfortunately, I can't go futher with my experiments until this is doable.
Well, that's pretty good going and it looks like it will not take much to get the fixes you need into trunk. Thank you for persevering with this and congratulations on getting it this close to working.
Can you tell me the actual URL at which your activation and registration coordinator services have been deployed? Can you also provide the addresses at which the participant services have been deployed?
Andrew Dinn
77. Re: Clarification on the use of the Transaction bridge in a inbound bridgingmauromol Oct 14, 2010 8:59 AM (in response to adinn)
Andrew Dinn ha scritto:
Can you tell me the actual URL at which your activation and registration coordinator services have been deployed? Can you also provide the addresses at which the participant services have been deployed?
Hi Andrew,
I have three webapps, called xts-client, xts-server (the participant) and xts-coord. Every webapp has CXF configured so that the CXFServlet responds at /services; in other words you can use the following URLs:
- http://<clientBindAddress>:<clientBindPort>/xts-client/services => to list the services deployed on the Client
- http://<participantBindAddress>:<participantBindPort>/xts-server/services => to list the services deployed on the Participant
- http://<coordinatorBindAddress>:<coordinatorBindPort>/xts-coord/services => to list the services deployed on the Coordinator
Then I configured the needed WS-C and WS-AT services to be exposed at the following endpoint URLs:
- http://<clientBindAddress>:<clientBindPort>/xts-client/services/CompletionInitiatorService
- http://<participantBindAddress>:<participantBindPort>/xts-server/services/ParticipantService
- http://<coordinatorBindAddress>:<coordinatorBindPort>/xts-coord/services/CompletionCoordinatorService
- http://<coordinatorBindAddress>:<coordinatorBindPort>/xts-coord/services/CoordinatorService
- http://<coordinatorBindAddress>:<coordinatorBindPort>/xts-coord/services/ActivationService
- http://<coordinatorBindAddress>:<coordinatorBindPort>/xts-coord/services/RegistrationService
78. Re: Clarification on the use of the Transaction bridge in a inbound bridgingadinn Oct 15, 2010 10:20 AM (in response to mauromol)
Hi Mauro,
I have fixed and closed all the remaining issues. You should now be able to use the current trunk to run your code.
You can either use properties or injection to specify the end point mappings for WS-C coordinator services and WS-T client, coordinator and participant services. See the comments in config/properties11.xml or sar/META-INF/xts11-jboss-beans.xml for an example of how to reset the URL path component.
Andrew Dinn
79. Re: Clarification on the use of the Transaction bridge in a inbound bridgingmauromol Oct 15, 2010 10:30 AM (in response to mauromol)
I have seen the updates in JIRA, thank you very much! :-)
I hope to be able to test the new code soon!
I'll let you know.


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Mo. National Guard to Open Family Resource Center
JEFFERSON CITY - The Missouri National Guard broke ground for its new resiliency center. The center will provide resources for family issues, mental and physical health, spiritual issues, and help deal with trainsitioning in and out deployment.
"Guardsmen and their Families have sacrificed a lot, both abroad and at home, in the past 12 years," Maj. Gen. Steve Danner said. "It's important to note that this could not have happened without the support of the Missouri Natinoal Guard Foundation, as well as generous contributions from outside individuals, businesses and organizations."
Business and personal donations totalled over $600,000 for the center. Many of the donors were in the audience today despite the chilly weather. In addition to the many resources the center will provide it will also include a non-denominational chapel for memorial services, weddings and other ceremonies.
"We want this to be a place that soldiers can come and recollect themselves, a kind of rejuvination center," said Chaplain Gary Gilmore.
The Missouri National Guard Board of Directors worked for five years to get the center approved and funded. When finished, the resiliency center will sit on a bluff overlooking the Missouri River.
Gilmore said the goal is to have the center up and running sometime this summer.


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Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Never Forget
2 comments:
- Knucklehead said...
Nor have I. Lost a firefighter neighbor (and all around friend and good guy) who worked the first week at Ground Zero. years of fibrosis and then the cancer set in. 54 years old. Know of three others and I'm not exactly tied into the firefighting community.
I suspect we will, if we haven't already, lose more people from the the aftermath than we did from the attack itself.
- 11:57 AM, September 11, 2013
- Dymphna said...
Yes, Knucklehead, we will, we have.But they will die unnoted, unmourned except by those who loved them. We will never be permitted to know the full extent of our loss.
We went to NYC on Dec 7, 2001. My husband was there on other business (ah, the days of employment!)... we tried to walk the periphery but my asthma set in after about 15 minutes so we had to abandon our trek. I scooped some of the dust off the black wrought iron fence around the churchyard and keep it on our home altar as a memento mori for all those people. The dust was still thick then and the gravestones looked as though they had a cap of dirty city snow on each one...though it was an unseasonable 70 degrees that day...
Going home on Sunday, the airport was deserted. No TSA either. I flew once more -after TSA began- and will never do so again. It is too demeaning. I feel badly for those who must fly to earn their daily bread: they are further casualties whose earlier deaths will never be given their true attribution.
Obama obliterated "Let's Roll". His mantra is "Gimme"...
- 10:52 PM, October 27, 2013


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Thursday, June 26, 2008
We are coming up to the mountain....
Posted by Unknown at 6:42 PM
1 comments:
- Christina said...
Christopher! How good to see you! In perusing your blog I have come to two conclusions: #1 - you have a beautiful wife. Your wedding announcement didn't do her justice, and #2 - your dog is hideously ugly.
Oh, and I'm going to need to hire you to do our engagement pics. I'm sure you're excited.
XOXO ~ Mother Brain
- June 27, 2008 at 1:25 PM
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Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease is irreversible and destroys brain cells, causing thinking ability and memory to deteriorate. Alzheimer's disease is not a normal part of aging.
What is Alzheimer's disease?
Dr. Alois Alzheimer first identified the disease in 1906. He described the two hallmarks of the disease: "plaques," which are numerous tiny, dense deposits scattered throughout the brain that become toxic to brain cells at excessive levels, and "tangles," which interfere with vital processes, eventually choking off the living cells. When brain cells degenerate and die, the brain markedly shrinks in some regions.
"Plaques" are deposits of a protein called "beta amyloid," or A-beta. When A-beta molecules clump together in the brain, they form plaques which prevent signals from being transferred between nerve cells in the brain, ultimately causing the cells to die.
"Tangles" are fiber clumps of a protein called Tau. Tau proteins can be seen as parallel railroad tracks within the brain. Nutrients and other important material are transported along those tracks, keeping brain cells alive.
In healthy brain areas, tau proteins make sure that nutrients can reach their destination.
In unhealthy brain areas, the tau protein collapses and twists, forming tangles which prevent nutrients from reaching brain cells, resulting in cell death.
The image below shows that a person with Alzheimer's disease has less brain tissue (right) than a person who does not have the disease (left). This shrinkage will continue over time, affecting how the brain functions.
MRI images courtesy of Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre
What is the difference between Alzheimer's disease and dementia?
If you have been confused by these terms in the past, or mistakenly thought that they were the same thing, watch the video:
The material was created by Dr. Sabina Brennan of Trinity College Dublin and Trinity Brain Health with financial support from GENIO.
© 2018 Trinity Brain Health. Permission to use this material was granted by Trinity Brain Health (trinitybrainhealth.com) which reserves all rights in the material.
The effects of Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease is a fatal disease that eventually affects all aspects of a person's life: how they think, feel, and act. Each person is affected differently. It is difficult to predict symptoms, the order in which they will appear, or the speed of their progression.
The following are some of the changes you may expect as the disease progresses.
Cognitive and functional abilities: a person's ability to understand, think, remember and communicate will be affected. This could impact a person's ability to make decisions, perform simple tasks, or follow a conversation. Sometimes people lose their way, or experience confusion and memory loss, initially for recent events and eventually for long-term events.
Emotions and moods: a person may appear apathetic and lose interest in favourite hobbies. Some people become less expressive and withdrawn.
Behaviour: a person may have reactions that seem out of character. Some common reactions include repeating the same action or words, hiding possessions, physical outbursts and restlessness.
Physical abilities: the disease can affect a person's coordination and mobility, to the point of affecting their ability to perform day-to-day tasks such as eating, bathing and getting dressed.
TreatmentThere are several medications that can help with symptoms such as memory decline, changes in language, thinking abilities and motor skills. Although there is still no cure for Alzheimer's disease, those who respond to these treatments can experience improvements in their quality of life for several years.
- Risk factors - how can we reduce the risk?
- 10 warning signs - know the signs and symptoms
- What is Alzheimer's disease? (print-friendly version) - brochure by the Alzheimer Society of Canada
- Stages of Alzheimer's disease - learn about the progression of the disease
- Shared experiences - advice from people living with Alzheimer's disease


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Watch a Beatboxing Priest Rap the Story of Christmas [VIDEO]
Reverend Gavin Tyte tells the story of Christmas via an old-school rhyme complete with awesome beatboxing. Word to your savior!
Tyte is actually an old hand at rapping, and has been beatboxing his sermons in the UK for the past 2 years. Makes sense, because only a man of the cloth would have the audacity to rhyme "kin" and "Bethlehem."
Watch the clever Christmas rap below.
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DescriptionFreecell is based on the classic Freecell solitaire, but with a special twist! Use the golden cards to your advantage, either to bring forward an obscured card or boost your score!
- Click and drag a card to move it. Create a sequence of Ace to King in each suit to complete the game.
- Use the Golden Cards to bring forward a card that you need. First click the golden card, then click the card you want to bring forward.
- You can also use the golden card to add to your score, by clicking the golden card and then your score counter.


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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and blow out your birthday candles. FACT: All birthday cake is improved with a quart of rum doused on it. LET'S GO!
GREY ANATOMY – 9:00PM (ABC) Tonight, Alex (Justin Chambers) is still afraid to ride in elevators, and the chief offers to help him get over his phobia. I had a friend who was terrified of taking elevators once. It was kind of hilarious to watch him try and step in, only to go rushing to the stairs. Even when we got him good and drunk, he was still terrified. Yes, I exploit other people's innermost fears for my own amusement. Don't judge me until you've tried it yourself. It's awesome. ANTICIPATION: SNOW PATROL MONTAGE!
CSI – 9:00PM (CBS) A murder takes place at a vampire and werewolf convention, which I imagine is supposed to be ComicCon but will more likely resemble what a 50-year-old grizzled TV writer imagines ComicCon being. Anyway, it should be awfully hard to track down the werewolf's killer. I just don't know HOWLLLLLLLLLLLLLL they'll do it. See what I did there? Stop your groaning! ANTICIPATION: SILVER BULLETS!
THIS OLD HOUSE HOUR – 8:00PM (PBS) Season nine of PBS's fix-it series focuses on a 1940's house along the Charles River in Boston (Chahhhhles Rivah!). And Tom Silva's new work bench is showcased. Oooh, a work bench! You talk about scintillating TV! Stop me from inviting my girlfriends over for wine and seven layer dip to celebrate it! ANTICIPATION: BENCHY!
PROJECT RUNWAY – 9:00PM (Lifetime) It's obvious now that Mondo will win this season. It's a lock. And not because he was brave enough to reveal his HIV positive status last week, but because he's just clearly so much better than anyone left. He'll be in the final with Gretchen and a token sacrificial lamb. Mondo aside, I thought last week's episode had far too much blubbering. The crying when the moms came in the sewing room was just… Come on, man. Get yourselves together and make garments that Michael Kors can tear apart. ANTICIPATION: TEARS!
TEXAS RODEO TYKES – 8:00PM (Animal Planet) Ever wanted to see a six-year-old rope a calf? Wish granted. ANTICIPATION: WRANGLIN'!
Thursday Watch List: Werewolves! Elevators! Benches!
Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and blow out your birthday candles. FACT: All birthday cake is improved with a quart of rum doused on it. LET'S GO!


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I seem to use more egg yolks than egg whites when baking so I always have egg whites left over. Thankfully egg whites can be frozen for up to 3 months. One large egg white is equal to 35 ml (2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon) so I like to portion and freeze them in ice cube trays, pop out the frozen cubes, and then store them in a plastic freezer bag. These individual portions can be thawed fairly quickly in the refrigerator.
Somehow I never have enough whites saved up to make an angel food cake, but I usually have enough for making cookies. Normally I bake some soft amaretti with my saved egg whites, but sometimes a girl craves a bit of chocolate. I saw this recipe for meringue cookies in Dorie Greenspan's "Baking From My Home to Yours" and decided to try it out.
My meringue cookies turned out much darker and were much flatter than the peaked mounds than the ones pictured in the book. Darker because the cocoa I used is particularly black. (It was Hershey's Special Dark Dutch Processed Cocoa.) Flatter because I planned to use the cookies to make ice cream sandwiches. The crispy meringue shells went really well with the toasted almond ice cream and espresso gelato. Unfortunately I don't have any photos of the ice cream sandwiches because we ate them all too quickly.
Cocoa Almond Meringue Cookies
(from "Baking From My Home to Yours" by Dorie Greenspan)
(makes about 30 cookies)
1 cup confectioners' sugar, plus extra for dusting
1/3 cup finely ground blanched almonds
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
4 egg whites, at room temperature
pinch of salt
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 300F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats.
Sift confectioners' sugar, ground almonds and cocoa. Set aside dry ingredients.
In the bowl of a stand mixer on medium speed, using the whisk attachment, whip the egg whites and salt until the whites are opaque. Increase to medium-high speed and continue to whip while adding the granulated sugar 1 tablespoon at a time. Continue whipping until the whites are shiny and hold a stiff peak. Beat in vanilla extract.
Remove bowl from mixer and gently fold in the dry ingredients with a large rubber spatula. The whites will deflate a little bit, but fold quickly and gently to minimize the deflation.
Drop the batter by tablespoonfuls onto your prepared baking sheets spacing them about 2 inches apart. Dust the tops lightly with confectioners' sugar.
Bake at 300F for 10 minutes, then, without opening the oven door, lower the temperature to 200F and bake for 1 hour more. Remove from oven and allow meringues to cool completely on the baking sheet. Carefully peel meringues off the parchment. If desired, dust with a little more confectioners' sugar before serving.


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